Monsanto’s GMO Killer Seeds: Profits Above Human Health

On May 25, more than two million people marched against Monsanto Worldwide. They did so in dozens of countries worldwide. They had good reason.They want consumer protections enacted. They want safe food to eat. They want governments assuring it. They want GMO foods and ingredients labeled.

They decide policy. They write laws Congress passes. Ordinary people have no say. Politicians are bought like toothpaste. Public health and environmental sanity are ignored. Corporate greed alone matters.

Business officials run the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other government agencies.

Monsanto’s the world’s leading GMO seed producer. It’s profiting at the expense of human health. It wants all animal and vegetable life forms patented. It wants global food control.

It wants labeling prohibited. It wants reliable science buried. It wants issues of food safety ignored. It wants consumers to have no say.

It wants critics silenced. It wants them discredited. It has enormous influence in Washington. It gets its own way. It’s long past time that ended. Ordinary people must demand it. Food safety is too vital to ignore.

The film explains why Monsanto’s the world’s poster child for manipulating governments to permit hazardous products vital to prohibit. It’s a wakeup call for mass action.

Monsanto’s history includes some of the most hazardous products ever produced. They include Agent Orange, DDT, recombinant bovine growth hormone, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), aspartame, and Roundup herbicide among others.

Its own documents later made public reveal Monsanto knew straightaway that many of its products are hazardous to human health. A company memo justified selling them. “We can’t afford to lose one dollar of business,” it said.

In December 2011, the Natural Society called Monsanto the “Worst Company of 2011.” It did so for “threatening both human health and the environment.”

It controls 90% of the US GMO seed market. Its Roundup herbicide contaminates 120 million hectares in America, Europe, South America, Australia and South Africa. Its other biopesticides increase contamination.

False GMO seed claims are made. Governments are pressured. Food & Water Watch’s executive director Wenonah Hauter said “(t)he US State Department is selling seeds instead of democracy. It campaigns on behalf of biotech giants.”

“The State Department should not be flexing its diplomatic muscle to impose biotech crops on the developing world.”

“Today, the US government is secretly negotiating major trade deals with Europe and the countries of the Pacific Rim that would force skeptical and unwilling countries to accept biotech imports, commercialize biotech crops and prevent the labeling of GE foods.”

“This madness must stop. The US government should not be a shill for the largest biotech seed companies.”

According to National Family Farm Coalition president Ben Burkett:

“An overwhelming number of farmers in the developing world reject biotech crops as a path to sustainable agricultural development or food sovereignty.”

“It’s not surprising that Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer and Dow want to maintain and expand their control of the $15 billion global biotech seed market, but it’s appalling that the State Department is complicit in supporting their goals despite public and government opposition in several countries.”

“American taxpayer’s money should not be spent advancing the goals of a few giant biotech companies.”

Food & Water Watch wants both kept safe, accessible, affordable, and sustainably produced. “Take Action,” it urges. Everyone has a right to know what they’re eating.

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